Category: Featured
Featured articles from FORSEA contributors.
COMMUNISTPHOBIA and TWO SEXUAL MORAL PANICS in INDONESIA
In Indonesia, simultaneous campaigns of communist phobia and of homophobia portray both groups as enemies of the nation and condemn both for treacherously undermining the state’s morality and weakening its vigilance.
THAI ELECTIONS 2019
Military uniforms are out, the civilian look is in. Window dressing aside: The five-year military rule has done nothing but deepen the militarisation of the Thai political landscape.
The FILIPINO UNIONISTS’ STRUGGLE AGAINST MARTIAL LAW and the FASCIST US-DUTERTE REGIME
News Release: EILER strongly condemns red-tagging, and the illegal arrests of unionists in Compostela Valley, Mindanao.
FORSEA CONDEMNS THAI CONSTITUTIONAL COURT
Southeast Asia’s Democratic Network, FORSEA, condemns the Thai Constitutional Court’s dissolution of the Thai Raksa Chart Party and urges the judicial body to rescind its anti-democratic ruling
THE DISSOLUTION of the THAI RAKSA CHART PARTY
Just weeks before the general elections in Thailand, the judicial coup is taking place.
Roundup of the FORSEA Launch: A FLICKER OF LIGHT IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir buried 'Asian Values' on February 16, 2019, in front of hundreds of Southeast Asian activists from all walks of life, writers, journalists, and artists, at the launch of FORSEA.
HUN SEN’s TAKE ON ‘DEMOCRACY’
Ruling Cambodia for four decades, for Hun Sen, to have democracy in Cambodia is to have him in power forever. Warning Cambodians, he says the country will be at 'WAR' if he loses the election.
Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad: “ANY GOVERNMENT WILL COLLAPSE IF IT DOESN’T FULFIL ITS PROMISES”
The New Straits Times reports on Dr Mahathir speaking at the Launch of FORSEA, February 16, 2019. Forces of Renewal South East Asia (FORSEA), a non-profit organisation and a cross-national community working peacefully for social change across the region.
AFTERNOON SESSION 2: THE INAUGURAL CONFERENCE OF FORSEA
News, updates, photo and video from the second afternoon session of the inaugural conference of FORSEA: Democracy Fest 2019, Kuala Lumpur, February 16, 2019.
AFTERNOON SESSION 1: THE INAUGURAL CONFERENCE OF FORSEA
News, updates, photo and video from the first afternoon session of the inaugural conference of FORSEA: Democracy Fest 2019, Kuala Lumpur, February 16, 2019.